Modelo de atitudes face aos sem-abrigo em Portugal

the present study intended to confirm the attitudes model identified through the studies of public opinion on homelessness in the u.s.a with the same methodology. the instrument - “the public’s perspective on homelessness: portugal survey” - was applied by telephone to a randomly selected sample of the portuguese population, composed by a total of 200 people who owned landline telephones. the confirmation of the attitudes model for the portuguese sample revealed the existence of the following attitudes factors: general compassion, limit public rights, trustworthy, social isolation, street people, housing/services needed, economic factors as cause and personal factors as cause.